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Halldór Laxness

1902-04-23 Reykjavik, Iceland

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Biografia

Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Writers who influenced Laxness included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. Description above from the Wikipedia article Halldór Laxness, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Películas

Brekkukotsannáll 1973-02-11
Halldór Kiljan Laxness Self (archive footage) 1962-01-01